I hugged Aria for the last time before she went to the school. I felt some sadness while saying goodbye.
"Take care of yourself."
"Mhm" She nodded and left after closing the door behind her.
"Guess I will be alone for sometime now "
she wouldn't return for some time, the students could only return to their homes 2 times a month .
But my mind was busy with recalling what she said before leaving .
Aria explained the war's situation before leaving, and my situation wasn't good.
'It's the worst world of all ! '
This world has 4 main races, they are humans, orcs, elves and dwarfs. There are many more races but they were either too rare like dragons ,too dumb like goblins or spread across the world like demi humans.
200 years ago ,a great war started between the 4 races for unmentioned reasons, but that wasn't the real problem.
150 years ago, a new intelligent race appeared out of nowhere, they took advantage of the war and took over the southern part of Eldoria which was around 40% of the world area in only 50 years !
After that great loss, the king of humans, Julius Sunblade, decided to form a meeting with the other races' kings to stop the war, and focus on fighting their new enemy to bring back Eldoria like the past, forming the United government.
That new race called themselves Knulls, but the government decided to call them "demons" due to their evil acts . And unlike all Eldorian races, they neither use mana nor aura, instead, they use dark energy similar to mana in usage but more chaotic, which we call "Anti mana" .
The anti mana wasn't supposed to be in our world, but the demons built strange towers that corrupted our world's mana and turned it into anti mana.
For us, anti mana was like poison. And for them, mana was also a poison.
If Anti mana somehow entered someone's mana core, he would simply explode !
That's why we couldn't have peace, it's either us or them .
That was what Aria told me, it was also in the first chapter of the last novel I read in my past life.
Yes, unfortunately, I reincarnated into the world of "The fall of humanity".
Covering my face with my hand, I grumbled.
"Of all the worlds, why this one ?! "
The problem with this novel was that I didn't complete it, I only saw the free chapters and some spoilers.
No black market. No hidden treasures. No future knowledge. No hidden potential ally with high talent in the slums. No mythical weapon waiting for its successor. I didn't even know if I was the same age as the protagonist .
I only knew basic information about the power system, the protagonist's power, the academy and the fact that the demon king defeated the protagonist with some small spoilers.
The worst part ? I didn't have cheats.
Feeling bored, I decided to try again.
"SYSTEM!!, I NEED YOU, SYSTEM!! "
*DING!*
A blue screen materialized in front of me.
"Huh? Did that actually work!?. "
[Mom: I sent you 5000 contribution points in case you wanted something, love you, dear.]
[Contribution points: 5582 ]
'tch, nevermind, it's just my bracelet. I have to turn off auto Materialization '
In my right hand I was wearing a white bracelet with 2 crystals engraved on it.
The United government gave something like that to anyone that reaches the age of 5, you can't break it nor remove it .
It had many uses like how you can use it as a phone, you can use social media,—though my mom had locked some things for obvious reasons— it can show your place to your family, work as a GPS, credit card, AI assistant and many more .
But the most important part is about the 2 crystals, one of them is used to detect mana, and the other for aura, so if i awakened my aura someday, the bracelet will send my information to the government.
In a case like that , they will start investing in me by sending an awakening technique, contribution points and online courses.
Why would they do all that ?
We are in the middle of war, every aura cultivator can be useful.
I made a big cup of bitter coffee to relax my mind, it was way better than the coffee in my past life.
Now comes the thoughts that any reincarnator should have in my situation such as.
'Who sent me here ? What if even my limited novel's information isn't real ? Are my past memories real ? Wait, am I even real ?
I didn't know anything about my current situation, the novel didn't show any dates , so, I didn't even know if the novel's events started.
Maybe I was an unknown extra that would die from a demons invasion. Maybe I was the real protagonist of the novel, but i couldn't confirm anything.
'All I can do now is train my body as much as possible until I'm old enough to form an aura core.'
So how can someone form an aura core ?
You must push your willpower beyond a specific threshold for some seconds , then your willpower will crystallize, forming an aura core in the head .
How to push your willpower?
No one really knows for sure, the most used way in schools was like how the masochist protagonists get stronger.
Train as much as possible, fight until you break your body, wait until you heal then repeat (Aria's current situation).
Some people formed their cores at the verge of death when they refused to die. Some after experiencing emotional trauma and there were even cases when some people just woke up and found it there.
As long as your willpower increased for some time, then the way doesn't matter
After forming your aura core , an awakening technique will be sent to your bracelet. It's used to awaken your core so you can finally use aura and increase your core Tier, but you will have to create your own cultivation technique, because every technique is unique to its user.
The cultivation technique is supposed to be made to suit your body, mind, soul and affinities. That means no one else could use it . In the best case they would only use it as a reference.
And unlike the aura core, there is no known way to form a mana core, you should be just lucky enough to born with it like me, the possibility to get a mana core is too low reaching only 0.5% but if one of your parents has mana core then it would be 30%, and if both your parents has mana cores the probability would reach 90%! .
For how to awaken your mana core, you either have to wait until it awakens by itself naturally or you reach the age of 15 and go to any awakening center where they will use an artifact to motivate your core to awaken it, which has a chance to fail by the way .
If you didn't form your aura core before and were lucky enough to awaken your mana, your aura core will be formed and awakened naturally.
Looks like a cheat, right?
Well, it was. That's why the mana users were called exalted instead of something like a mage .
They had a higher strength and position than cultivators.
Then comes the core Tiers, it's the same for both mana and aura cores .
it starts from the weakest to the strongest by Tiers numbers
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[Tier 1]: means that you have aura or mana core
[Tier 2]: means that you have awakened a core or 2 cores and
[Tier 3~5]: you just break through tiers and get feedback that depends on the core type.
[Tier 6]: It wasn't explained in the novel where I stopped, I just knew that it needed an affinity and meeting some special conditions
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Just like most fantasy novels, there were only some small differences .
Having nothing to do. I continued my life without any difference.
Until 1 year passed .
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